Samsara

For the past 20 years, Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson’s Baraka has dazzled filmgoers into submission with its narrative-free, highly poetic cascade of images drawn from all over the globe. The four-years-in-the-making Samsara is a sequel, exploring the concepts of cyclical existence and “humanity’s relationship to the eternal” via ravishing footage shot in 25 countries on 70 mm film. (DAVID SCHMADER)